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Biophysics

Biophysics

By Dayyal Dg.Twitter Profile | Updated: Monday, 04 September 2017 13:13 UTC
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Biophysics or biological physics is an interdisciplinary science that applies the approaches and methods of physics to study biological systems. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. Biophysical research shares significant overlap with biochemistry, physical chemistry, nanotechnology, bioengineering, computational biology, biomechanics and systems biology.
 
The term biophysics was originally introduced by Karl Pearson in 1892.
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